New York Times executive editor rips Fox News, CNN: They are 'bad for democracy'

The executive editor of The New York Times unleashed a storm of
criticism on Fox News and CNN
in an interview published on Friday.

Dean Baquet, who assumed the role of the Times' executive editor
in 2014, criticized the two cable news networks for blending news
and entertainment.

"Fox News at its heart is not a journalistic institution," he
told the Financial Times. "Megyn Kelly is a great journalist,
Chris Wallace is a great journalist, but it is some weird mix of
a little bit of journalism, a little bit of entertainment, a
little bit of pandering to a particular audience. ... I don't
think Roger Ailes will go down as one of the great journalists of
his time."

Baquet said he believed both CNN and Fox News were "in the long
run, bad for democracy."

"This mix of entertainment and news, and news masquerading as
entertainment, is kind of funny except that we now have a guy who
is a product of that world nominated as Republican presidential
candidate," he told the Financial Times, referring to Donald
Trump.